https://blog.usejournal.com/my-experience-as-a-beginner-in-elixir-and-why-you-should-try-it-too-be4a0bd597b8

Lately, I’ve been using Elixir, an incredible programming language. You might not have heard about it, since it is not that popular right now. However, in just the few months I’ve been learning and playing with it, I have been able to realize how the future of software development looks like.

I became interested in Elixir not due to its performance or the functional paradigm; in fact it was the pattern matching part that got me interested. It’s a topic that I found a bit difficult to grasp in the beginning: ‘How could this make sense in a large codebase? How will people not get confused about the params that should go into functions?’. Those sort of questions arise when you first encounter Elixir’s pattern matching, but it was a challenge for me and I had to tackle it.